Data Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 128 123
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 404 470 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.99% 2.05% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.29% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 301 393
10th Percentile £275 £238 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £538
90th Percentile £675 £638 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 36 75
10th Percentile £17.78 £18.91 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.38 £20.39
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% -7.71% +61.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.06 £58.59
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.76% -9.19% +50.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in the UK excluding London

Data Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +24 104 £475 - 152
South East -13 92 £460 -9.81% 116
Midlands +48 74 £400 - 125
North West +5 66 £475 +2.70% 85
West Midlands +51 57 £400 -15.79% 75
Scotland +16 48 £478 +0.53% 37
South West +5 46 £519 +9.21% 57
East of England +9 36 £525 +22.09% 48
Yorkshire +15 32 £450 -14.29% 51
East Midlands +3 16 £405 +19.12% 50
Wales +21 7 £412 -3.06% 19
North East +17 4 £431 -5.53% 17
Northern Ireland 0 2 £375 -29.25% 8
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (4.70%) SAS
2 9 (2.23%) Confluence
2 9 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.99%) Apache
5 3 (0.74%) Appian
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Jadu
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 65 (16.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (5.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.73%) Simulink
4 7 (1.73%) SPSS
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.25%) Stata
7 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.74%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.50%) Maximo
5 2 (0.50%) Primavera
5 2 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.50%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.26%) Power Platform
2 20 (4.95%) AWS
3 17 (4.21%) Azure
3 17 (4.21%) Power Automate
3 17 (4.21%) Snowflake
4 13 (3.22%) OCI
5 9 (2.23%) PowerApps
6 7 (1.73%) Collibra
6 7 (1.73%) GCP
6 7 (1.73%) Google Sheets
7 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.24%) Serverless
8 4 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (0.99%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.72%) Intrusion Detection
2 10 (2.48%) Network Security
3 4 (0.99%) Wireless
4 3 (0.74%) 5G
4 3 (0.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) AMQP
5 1 (0.25%) DMZ
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.25%) Modbus
5 1 (0.25%) MQTT
5 1 (0.25%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (24.26%) Power BI
2 36 (8.91%) Tableau
3 35 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (5.94%) Data Mining
5 23 (5.69%) Big Data
6 16 (3.96%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.47%) Metadata
8 12 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (2.97%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (1.98%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.98%) Metadata Repository
10 7 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.73%) Ataccama
10 7 (1.73%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (1.49%) GIS
11 6 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.24%) SAP BW
12 5 (1.24%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.67%) JIRA
2 7 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.24%) LSMW
4 4 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.74%) Git
5 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.50%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.50%) ERwin
6 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.50%) kappa
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) JMeter
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 125 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (22.03%) Finance
4 59 (14.60%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.95%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.70%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.96%) Retail
8 15 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.97%) Banking
10 12 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.97%) Legal
11 11 (2.72%) Mandarin Language
12 10 (2.48%) Back Office
13 7 (1.73%) Marketing
14 6 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.49%) Law
14 6 (1.49%) Local Government
15 5 (1.24%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 146 (36.14%) Analyst
2 78 (19.31%) Data Analyst
3 46 (11.39%) Senior
4 43 (10.64%) Business Analyst
5 35 (8.66%) Senior Analyst
6 26 (6.44%) Architect
7 21 (5.20%) Developer
8 20 (4.95%) Data Architect
9 19 (4.70%) Senior Data Analyst
10 15 (3.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 15 (3.71%) Consultant
10 15 (3.71%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.71%) Data Scientist
11 13 (3.22%) Lead
12 10 (2.48%) 3rd Line Support
12 10 (2.48%) Data Quality Analyst
12 10 (2.48%) QA Analyst
12 10 (2.48%) Quality Analyst
13 9 (2.23%) IT Support Specialist
13 9 (2.23%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.72%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (1.49%) XML
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.24%) PySpark
4 4 (0.99%) .NET
4 4 (0.99%) BAPI
4 4 (0.99%) D3.js
4 4 (0.99%) Kafka
5 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.74%) JSON
5 3 (0.74%) Middleware
5 3 (0.74%) SpaCy
5 3 (0.74%) Web Services
6 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.50%) HTML
6 2 (0.50%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.50%) REST
6 2 (0.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.50%) Swagger
6 2 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.65%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.22%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.97%) Cyber Defence
3 12 (2.97%) Distributed Applications
4 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.73%) NHS
6 7 (1.73%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.24%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.99%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (0.99%) IoT
9 4 (0.99%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.74%) Insider Threat
10 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.70%) Linux
2 13 (3.22%) Windows
3 11 (2.72%) Unix
4 8 (1.98%) Android
4 8 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.46%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (23.02%) Analytics
3 90 (22.28%) Data Modelling
4 84 (20.79%) Visualisation
5 83 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (14.60%) Project Management
7 55 (13.61%) Decision-Making
8 54 (13.37%) Agile
9 53 (13.12%) Data Management
10 48 (11.88%) Data Visualisation
11 43 (10.64%) Migration
12 39 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (9.41%) Data Governance
14 37 (9.16%) Data Cleansing
15 36 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
16 33 (8.17%) Data Science
17 32 (7.92%) Problem Management
18 29 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (7.18%) Data Migration
19 28 (6.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 91 (22.52%) SQL
2 65 (16.09%) Python
3 15 (3.71%) R
4 7 (1.73%) C
4 7 (1.73%) C++
4 7 (1.73%) MATLAB
5 6 (1.49%) C#
5 6 (1.49%) Java
5 6 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.24%) Perl
6 5 (1.24%) Scala
7 4 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.50%) VBA
10 1 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.90%) Degree
3 29 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.99%) ACCA
7 4 (0.99%) CIMA
7 4 (0.99%) HNC
8 3 (0.74%) CBAP
8 3 (0.74%) ISEB
8 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.74%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.50%) CISM
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) Dell Certification
9 2 (0.50%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.93%) PMO
3 18 (4.46%) QA
4 13 (3.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (2.72%) GDPR
6 5 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (1.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) IFRS
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (1.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.74%) HDFS
3 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.74%) MOM
4 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.90%) SAP
3 29 (7.18%) Oracle
4 18 (4.46%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.97%) Dell
6 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.48%) Google
8 9 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.98%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.73%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.73%) Remedy
10 7 (1.73%) Trillium
11 5 (1.24%) IBM
12 4 (0.99%) Ariba
12 4 (0.99%) BT
13 3 (0.74%) HP
13 3 (0.74%) Informatica
13 3 (0.74%) Splunk
13 3 (0.74%) Twitter